We live in a strange bubble.

Imitation is the highest form of flattery, but clones kind of get it wrong because we are promoting individuality and being proud of being yourself.

I refuse to be held responsible for bringing back a wave of pasty-faced people into the world.

My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who are lager than me. If someone punched me, I'd get my drummer beat them up.

I feel very comfortable with the way I look, and I feel very comfortable with the kind of confusion that it creates in people's minds.

I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage.

So, then you find yourself in a situation where you have to do things because they're on offer to you, because you don't have much self-respect left. You just can't say no, even to something that you've never done before. You just can't help yourself.

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.

I love being a freak. It's great!

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

We live in a strange bubble.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

I guess the line between being paranoid and being a rock star is smaller than one would expect.

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

I used to fly off the handle in everyday life, but I'm a little calmer now.

I'm a weirdo magnet, but I'm handling it better than I used to.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.

I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

Id be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic Id like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.

You lose so many material possessions being on the road. You can't get too attached to stuff and you have to remember that people must never become possessions. People are spheres intersecting. You have to make sure that one sphere doesn't ever take over the other. Individuality is absolutely the most important thing

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

It's insanely difficult to ask an audience to go somewhere other than YouTube to watch videos.

Authentic femininity is a combination of class, tenderness and virtue. When a woman possesses these traits, a man will naturally want to be more of a gentleman around her.

I used to have really bad skin, and when I was younger, I had a lazy eye. I had to wear a patch and pink-rimmed glasses.

I like very much Louis Vuitton. My wife loves it too.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.

Divorce doesn't fit my cookie-cutter image.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

When you go home, fill the house with joy so that the light of it will stream out the windows and doors and illuminate even the darkness. It is just as easy that way as any in the world.

If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.

I am a blank slate - therefore I can create anything I want.

God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.

Serve yourself, put the food away, then eat.

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

To hunt successfully you must know your ground your pack and your quarry.

My first marriage was not happy. I married him because I was impressed that he knew which wines to order and how to leave his visiting card. Ridiculous reasons.

A lot of terrorists fled out of Afghanistan.

The key for me with historical characters is they're interesting because they're human beings. A little bit of Hemingway goes a long way here, but journalists and writers should honestly look at their material and have a real interest, a real passion in what they want to write, and they should also have a lot of knowledge as well.

When I was a little girl, the only real form of entertainment I was exposed to was theater, being raised in St. Louis, and I still love theater, and I think sitcoms are similar to that, in there's a live audience, and you know, I definitely like the comedy of it, too. I like to make people laugh, and I definitely think laughter is healing.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

I started working out, doing a formal workout right around 1980. That's when I really decided I needed to get in shape and it may have been because you just start to see a decrease - a change in your body.